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Priced at $3,995 and $5,795 in its two versions, the PC AT will be going head-to-head in the office market against such established firms as Digital Equipment and Data General, as well as Silicon Valley upstarts like Altos and Fortune. said Phillip White, a senior vice president at Altos, after the announcement: "IBM will be competing against its own products before they cut into our sales." But IBM has shown that it can be a dominating force once it goes after a market...
...professors at the University of Georgia showed that the most frequently held credit card in that group is not American Express or Diners Club but the Sears card. One of the first customers of the financial center at the Sears store in Cupertino, Calif., in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was a man who opened a $ 1.9 million account at Dean Witter Reynolds, the stockbroker that Sears bought in 1981. At the other end of the scale, a third of American households earning less than $10,000 are Sears customers too. Sears studies show that 86% of its customers...
...nation gets sucked up in the high tech craze, it is becoming clear that something is wrong--dangerously wrong. Many experts warn that the accidents experienced thus far by workers in the computer and silicon chip industries are only the tip of the iceberg. The reason for this gloom: the government has not adequately monitored high tech companies, and it shows no signs of starting to do so. And the companies themselves are using more and more toxic chemicals in the production of technology...
...high-tech workers is its inability to prevent firms from expanding the use of gallium arsenic "super chips"--the fumes from which killed John Zemotel. These chips are expected to enable computer companies to build machines that operate at speeds five times as great as the current generation of silicon-powered computers. The use of gallium arsenic, fatal in certain amounts, is thus expected to grow by 56 percent between...
Notwithstanding the potential profits, the industry has failed in one crucial respect--developing a safe method of producing these chips. It has been proven almost impossible to contain the arsenic gas used in the production of gallium arsenic. The industry has tried to conceal the stuff in silicon dioxide boats sealed in containers: unfortunately, no federal standards exist for either the boat or the container. Whereas the containers used to contain nuclear wastes go through vigorous testing before they are approved, the government does nothing of the sort for the gallium arsenic. Other types of safeguards are similarly unscrutinized...